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Alice looked up to find herself in a dark, dank, stone maze. She looked to the left and was surprised to find a figure very much resembling the caterpillar. "Ello," he greeted her.
"Did you just say 'hello'?" Alice wondered.
"No I said 'ello', but close enough," the worm said in an obvious british accent.
"Where am I, now, Sir?" Alice asked the worm.
"You're in the Labyrinth. King Jareth is the Goblin King and he controls what goes on inside of here. He must want you for something or you would have never been granted access," he told her.
"I wonder what he wants me for," Alice inquired.
"Don't know, Miss," the worm said, "but I can get you close to the center. Not all the way, but close."
"What's there?" Alice asked.
"Why, King Jareth's castle, of course," he answered, "follow me." The pair walked for hours, but being so small they hardly made any progress.
"Oh, there MUST be a simpler way!" Alice complained, "my feet are hurting me so." It was at that moment that the... "magic"... from the caterpillar's hookah wore off and Alice returned to normal girl size, "Oh how dizzying!"
"This is as far as I can take you anyway, Miss," the worm told her, "best of luck." He turned and disappeared into another crack that Alice hadn't noticed before.
"What am I to do now?" Alice asked the no one there.
"Well, you could go this way," a fuzzy arm pointed to the right, "or that way." the fuzzy arm pointed to the front. Alice jumped.
"Who's there? An arm cannot talk by itself," Alice demanded. Slowly, a grinning cat appeared.
"It is I, the Cheshire Cat," the cat told her.
"You... you just appeared," Alice stuttered.
"What else am I supposed to do when you demand to see me?" the cat inquired.
"You make a good point," Alice agreed, "I was just wondering where I go from here. I'm trying to get to the center."
"You could go left or right, it's no big matter of difference," the cat told her.
"What sort of people live around here? I'm sure someone can help," Alice said determinedly.
"Well, in this direction," Cheshire pointed to the right, "lives the March Hare. And in that direction," he pointed left, "lives the Hatter. Go either way you please, they're both mad."
"But I don't want to go about mad people," Alice pouted.
"Oh you can't help that. We're all mad here!" Cheshire told her, "I'm mad, you're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" Alice asked, slightly offended.
"You wouldn't have followed Dapper Worm this far if you weren't mad," Cheshire said as he shrugged as if that was common knowledge.
"Well alright," Alice said as she chose a path, "thanks anyway."
"No problem, Deary," a floating smile said as it wisped away.
"Well, I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat? How peculiar," Alice said to no one, again.
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